Pomona for Facebook

©Netflix and IFC Films There's a tradition of journalists making the leap into making movies either as screenwriters or directors  Film critics like Francois Truffaut, Jean Luc Godard, Roger Ebert, Joe Cornish, Jay Cocks, James Agee, Paul Schrader and Peter Bogdanovich all made the leap from writing about film to actually writing or directing them. Others like Billy Wilder, Paul Greengrass, Ava Du Vernay, Subhash Kapoor, Vinod Kapri and Peter Landesman served their time as newspaper reporters, magazine editors, TV current affairs production directors or broadcast journalism interns before making the transition into cinema. In the past two years, Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson have added their names to the list. ©Netflix and IFC Films Lawn is an investigative journalist who worked initially for Magill magazine in Dublin and then BBC Northern Ireland, fronting episodes of its flagship current affairs programme 'Spotlight' and BBC1's national current affairs show 'Pano

Okay. So it wasn't Pinter.  'Neighbours' never was. After 38 seasons and 8,903 episodes, an Aussie institution finally came to an end with a special hour long episode. And it was as bonkers, amateurish and shambolic as you might have expected. The Melbourne soap that gave us Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Guy Pearce, Natalie Imbruglia, Delta Goodrem and Margot Robbie gave their characters one last outing. There were appearances either in person or on video by older characters in a plot that was as mushy as potatoes drowned in gravy. The story made little sense to those who abandoned the show years ago but at this point, who cares? As far as I could make out from the final episode, instead of having the show end with the houses of Ramsay Street being wiped out by a UFO attack or flattened by diggers to make way for a motorway, the writers opted instead for everyone leaving of their own accord. Or would they? We learned Jackie Woodbourne's Susan Kennedy was writing a book

©Netflix They're the second most commercially successful directors of all time behind Steven Spielberg. But Cleveland-born Joe and Anthony Russo will not be closing the $4 billion gap on their fellow Ohioan just yet. That's not because their latest crash, bang, wallop movie 'The Gray Man' has been a flop - far from it. It's just that it was made for Netflix. ©Netflix Therefore, it has had a rather limited theatrical release. But what if it had received a traditional release? Well, there's good grounds to believe it might have been a huge smash hit. Within days of its release on streaming, Netflix confirmed it was viewed 88.55 million times - equating to around 43.55 million viewers. ©Netflix The Russos' movie was also the most watched film in 84 countries. The most expensive film Netfix has ever made, it is the fifth best performing movie in the streaming giant's history. So it is not surprising that Joe and Anthony Russo promptly announced a sequel  af

Whether it is ' Breaking Bad ,' ' Better Call Saul ' or ' Your Honor ,' it seems some of us can't get enough of dramas about people who should be law abiding citizens engaging in dodgy criminal behaviour. If done well, the audience goes along with these anti-heroes and their questionable antics as the story turns into a very bumpy ride. But if we are to buy into these characters, we have to be convinced that they are capable of even the most outrageous criminal behaviour. Series one of Stephen Merchant's BBC1 and Amazon Prime comedy drama 'The Outlaws' surfaced last November, bringing together a disparate group of low level offenders in Bristol in a tale about drug gangs and dodgy money. The group comprised of Merchant's lonely, bumbling solicitor, Greg who got caught in his car with a prostitute, Christopher Walken's seventysomething fraudster Frank who was fresh from a spell in prison for passing dodgy checks and Eleanor Tomlinson's